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What are the laws on brainwashing? What are the victims rights?
Minnesota or elsewhere.
It would help to know precisely what you mean by "brainwashing." This
word is used in describing everything from persuasive advertising to
abduction and torture. If you could describe in detail how you're
defining the term, I'm sure we can provide some info about applicable
laws.
mamamiamoe-ga,
There does not appear to be very much in the way of laws against
brainswashing, despite some very prominent cases on this topic,
including Patty Hearst, the Jim Jones' mass suicides, and Elizabeth
Smart's abduction.
This article may be of interest to you:
http://writ.corporate.findlaw.com/hamilton/20030327.html
The Elizabeth Smart Case:
Why We Need Specific Laws Against Brainwashing
"...Despite the high value placed on free will in the United States,
the harm caused by the brainwashing of children and disabled adults
has rarely been addressed by any specific legislation. The criminal
law ignores this unique crime, and civil claims do not directly
address it either..."
In the absence of both criminal law or civil remedies, it's hard to
know how to proceed. Can you give us some guidance about what
additional information you would like at this point, to make for a
complete answer to your question?
Thanks,
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Hello and thank you for your question.
Before you can brainwash someone, you need to have them under your
control. So unless they are old enough to consent and they willingly
submit, you must be controlling them physically or by threat.
In Minnesota, the crimes in question would be
609.27 Coercion
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/27.html
Which includes among other things making a threat to unlawfully
inflict bodily harm upon, or hold in confinement, the person
threatened that causes them to act against their will.
609.275 Attempt to coerce.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/275.html
Which means making a threat within the meaning of section 609.27 that
fails to cause the intended act or forbearance.
609.255 False imprisonment/Intentional restraint.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/255.html
Which includes confining or restraining a person without the person's consent.
If these statutes don't fit the circumstances (for example an adult
voluntarily joins a cult), then the other possibility is that the cult
is commiting theft by false representation,
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/52.html
Which includes obtaining possession, custody, or title to property of
or performance of services by a third person by intentionally
deceiving the third person with a false representation which is known
to be false, made with intent to defraud, and which does defraud the
person to whom it is made.
Victim's rights in these cases would be to file a criminal complaint
(or if they're not mentally competent, a guardian could do so on their
behalf), and to seek restitution for their damages.
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Minnesota statutes restraint
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above unclear, please request clarification (and let me know more
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